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New comment by jen729w in "I've sold out"

jen729w — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:46:36 +0000

Oh, catch yourself. Tell me you wouldn't do the same for your family.

I run a tiny thing that a lot of people like. Its licence is permissive: if I 'sold out', nobody who is using it today would have to change a damned thing.

And you know what? Call me if you wanna buy it. Because here's my priority list:

1. Looking after my family.

2. Looking after yours.

New comment by jen729w in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

jen729w — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:17:55 +0000

Tailscale, perhaps ironically in this context, has shown me the value of not caring about an IP address.

I used to. When I had a home network I'd carefully assign `10.52.1.x` where `x` was the periodic number corresponding to the machine name! (I write from `lutetium`.)

Now, with Tailscale's magic DNS – `lutetium` being all I need – why on Earth would I give a crap about an IP address? I've gone from being obsessed to truly not caring at all.

So, give me IPv6. Auto-assign everything! All I want is a name.

New comment by jen729w in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

jen729w — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:35:27 +0000

Those test failures are pre-existing. We're all done!

New comment by jen729w in "People Love to Work Hard"

jen729w — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:30:45 +0000

Nah, it's not that simple.

Work is an amazing place to bond with people, if you all enjoy the work and find value in it. I'm still friends with a bunch of folks I met in 2007 when we all managed the 3rd level infra for a bank. We meet for beers, we go to each other's houses, we're best men at each other's weddings. Just yesterday evening I inter-continentally called one of them for a catchup.

Can it be toxic? Of course! Is it always toxic? Don't be silly.

New comment by jen729w in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

jen729w — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:37:24 +0000

I remember the march in London. A staggering number of people. Makes a mockery of any modern-day ‘protest’.

Made not a jot of difference. In Tony went anyway. Shame.

New comment by jen729w in "The East India Company in Japan"

jen729w — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:52:04 +0000

This is a delightful historical fiction if you're into this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thousand_Autumns_of_Jacob_...

Also there's a museum. It's on my list!

https://www.niche-museums.com/59

New comment by jen729w in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jen729w — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:47:39 +0000

Sounds like you'll be spending your day making a better video! :-)

New comment by jen729w in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jen729w — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:17:54 +0000

You might misunderstand how ISO works on digital cameras. (I did.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSvHBG7X0w

New comment by jen729w in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

jen729w — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:13:47 +0000

> They have to be honest about what they can offer for $200.

Isn't that exactly what they just did?

New comment by jen729w in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

jen729w — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:48:35 +0000

I can’t take an article seriously that starts:

> Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software

and then proceeds not to explain how it’s doing that to me, a Safari user.

Because, spoiler: it isn’t. Or, it might try to search, and fail, and nothing will be collected.

New comment by jen729w in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

jen729w — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:16:35 +0000

It's a ridiculous folly. I've already lost a well-constructed question because I accidentally tabbed into my pointless 'buddy'.

(Yes, I know I can turn it off. I have.)

New comment by jen729w in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

jen729w — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:15:04 +0000

Is it just me or do I not find the Claude Code application that fascinating?

I use it all day and love it. Don't get me wrong. But it's a terminal-based app that talks to an LLM and calls local functions. Ooookay…

New comment by jen729w in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

jen729w — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:32:53 +0000

I wonder whether people like you have actually used Claude for any length of time.

I use it all day. I consider it a near-miracle. Yet I correct it multiple times daily.

New comment by jen729w in "HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules"

jen729w — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:57:15 +0000

Originally saw via this article: https://www.visahq.com/news/2026-03-29/hk/hong-kongs-new-bor...

– the BBC article's first paragraph states, emphasis mine:

> Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from those who are suspected of breaching the wide-ranging National Security Law (NSL).

– indicating this isn't a blanket right at the border. Anyone have any actual knowledge of the situation?

HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules

jen729w — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:55:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8j9yj52lro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582572

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by jen729w in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

jen729w — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:32:44 +0000

Because everyone's retirement depends on the stock market. If you're unlucky and your portfolio vests the day after a massive crash, that can have a very meaningful impact on the rest of your life.

New comment by jen729w in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

jen729w — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:31:40 +0000

> It's a physical impossibility to bring that much power online that quickly.

China begs to differ.

New comment by jen729w in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

jen729w — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:06:09 +0000

The experience is similar if you call for end-user support. I did this once with an Apple Home issue. I called 133-MAC (Australia), got through to someone immediately, had a nice chat, was very impressed, felt supported, and got myself a case number. Of course, it wasn't resolved.

And then, no matter what I did, I could never, ever get a single word out of anyone about that case again. I often wonder if it's still open.

New comment by jen729w in "The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV"

jen729w — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:07:59 +0000

I’m reading Wolf Hall. It’s amazing how much more history is ‘sinking in’ when told as historical fiction.

Recommended, as is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, for the same reason. Also that’s just beautifully written.

New comment by jen729w in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

jen729w — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:11:49 +0000

From me, this is a massive relief after we just deployed a bunch of videos to Vimeo. The next week they were bought.

I'm a one-man operation. In the order of hundreds of videos served a week. All I want is control over my own destiny. If this and a VPS can do that, that'll be amazing. Thank you for doing this.